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mariacallous · 7 months ago

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Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its hard cocoon, the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully metamorphosed into X.com.

Various elements of Twitter had already embraced the rebranding, and the company has been using X.com links since early April. But now the domain has flipped over entirely, marking the end of a tumultuous transition period—and erasing the last vestiges of the bird app.

“We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same,” reads a message at the bottom of the X login and home pages.

The switchover has been a long time coming. X owner Elon Musk announced the shift from Twitter to X last July, a few months after he officially acquired the company. But the billionaire has for decades harbored a dream of creating an “everything app” by that name, and Twitter is his vessel.

“The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth—like birds tweeting—but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video,” Musk wrote on the newly redubbed X last summer. “In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.”

Twitter under Musk has indeed added video and voice calls to its roster of features. It has also replatformed conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, fostered a welcoming environment for porn spam accounts, made an absolute hash out of verification, introduced a monetization system that encourages rampant engagement farming, gutted its trust and safety team, allowed a surge in hate speech on the platform, designated NPR as “US state-affiliated media,” removed news headlines entirely and then reintroduced them in a weird spot, kneecapped a bunch of fun bots and third-party apps by introducing wildly expensive API changes while giving blue-check verification to AI-generated chum, pivoted to video, introduced an AI model that will help you do crimes, and overseen a decline in usage of more than 20 percent in the US, according to app analytics firm SensorTower.

The “entire financial world” part remains a work in progress.

A sentimentalist may bemoan the death of Twitter, which for all its faults always had a capacity to delight and surprise. But remember that this transformation was inevitable. Musk first owned X.com in 1999, when he cofounded an online bank by that name; it would eventually merge with a competitor and become PayPal. He bought X.com back from PayPal in 2017, tweeting that it had “great sentimental value.” And he has seen Twitter as an opportunity to create X on Earth since before the acquisition was even completed, according to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson.

“In the days leading up to his takeover of Twitter at the end of October 2022, Musk’s moods fluctuated wildly,” Isaacson wrote in Elon Musk. “He said that he would turn it into the combination of financial platform and social network he had envisioned 24 years earlier for X.com, and he added that he planned to rebrand it with that name, which he loved.”

To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.

While X may never become the everything app of Musk’s dreams, it’s undeniably and indelibly a different place than the one he bought. Which in some ways makes this final transition all the more palatable. Whatever Elon Musk’s platform has become, it’s certainly not Twitter. Call it whatever you want.

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coolgreatwebsite · 1 year ago

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Happy 1 Million Views to the Video That Broke Me

This is a repost of something I wrote over on my Cohost, but I figured a year later it should also probably live on the domain I pay money to have. Better late than never!

This is the most successful piece of content I have ever created. At one million views it is the thing I've made that people have seen the most. It is the thing that the most people have seen my name attached to. And it's total trash.

It's 2017 and we're a week or so out from the release of Sonic Mania, a game that I'm, at that point, pretty damn excited for. A kindly poster from the Something Awful forums (that I have known from many forums previous) poses a challenge: be the first to beat his short kaizo Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ROM hack and he'll gift you a copy of Sonic Mania on Steam when it comes out.

I was already getting the game on PS4 but I figured whatever, everyone else seems to be having trouble with it, I'm bored, I got nothing better to do, I'll give it a shot. I load up KEGA Fusion, start a low bitrate and resolution OBS recording because it'll probably take a few hours and who cares it's a forum contest verification video, and get to work. A hour and half-ish goes by and I'm finished with the hack. I upload the video to YouTube, post it in the thread, win my free copy of Sonic Mania, and that's the end of the story. Thanks for reading.

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Except of course it's not the end of the story. A few months after I got done thoroughly enjoying Sonic Mania, I realized that I'd been getting a weird amount of new subscriber emails from YouTube. I decided to actually look at my metrics and noticed a uh, highly localized spike of activity. Give you one guess on which video (hint: it's the one this post is about). "The Algorithm" had suddenly taken it and was running away with it at lightning speed.

In the timespan between posting the video and this spike, YouTube had announced they were drastically raising the bar on the metrics you needed to hit to have your channel monetized. I was by no means a large YouTuber at the time, but I was meeting the old requirements for monetization just fine. I wasn't anywhere near meeting the new requirements until now and this video was blowing the hell up for whatever reason, so I decided to do what any good opportunist would do and made it an unwatchable experience.

I set the ad frequency on that thing to the maximum that it'd let me. I forget exactly how frequent that was but it was something absurd like an ad every 5 minutes. Maybe even more than that. I figured I'd either get rich or maybe it would make people stop watching and leaving the worst comments in the world. Seriously the comments on this thing are their own nightmare, a bizarre soup of people ascribing meaning to nothing, trying to suss out emotions where there are none, saying complete gibberish, I'd need an entire second post to unpack whatever the hell is going on there.

Well, I wouldn't quite say I got rich. The money you get off what most people would conventionally call a popular YouTube video is just not much in the grand scheme of things. But holy shit they didn't stop watching. If anything they were watching more. Why didn't they stop watching? This video was less than nothing. It was an ordeal to watch all the way through. Why were they doing this? Why was the algorithm showing this to everyone? Why this and not one of the things I put effort into or something that was at least meant to be entertaining at all? I didn't have the answers and I still don't.

Before this I personally wasn't lamenting the possibility of losing monetization on my channel as up until this point I had made around $40 total on YouTube in the decade or so I'd had a channel. But I had been spending a lot that time watching friends with channels around the size of mine who were actively hustling to, and unfortunately failing to, meet the new hurdle. They were putting out some really good shit. Way better than my stuff, frankly. And here I was getting launched to the finish line by... a throwaway, blurry, hour and a half long, commentary-free, save state abusing playthrough of a crummy Sonic ROM hack? That I had made as a means to a completely separate end?? That got promoted by a computer program for seemingly no reason???

It felt shitty. One of the friends I mentioned in that last paragraph was my longtime friend Fotts who was in the middle of getting their (sadly now dormant) series TAS Force off the ground. They were constantly tweeting about the ordeal of trying to meet the new monetization requirements and it was a damn shame because they were putting in a ton of effort and it was great. The kind of thing I'd watch even if I wasn't friends with anyone on it. It was a million times funnier than anything I was doing, and the complete opposite of my shitty contest video. If there was any justice in this world the views I was getting on this dumpster fire would be going to them. But as it turns out, there is no justice online.

I recalled a conversation I had with them a few years back while they, I, and a group of about 7 or so other friends were all wandering around an Orlando Wal-Mart wearing identical black t-shirts that read "MARVEL CAN SUCK MY COCK" in big block letters (long story). They had actually kind of gone through this sort of thing before. See, they're the uploader and one of the voices of this video you may or may not have seen with 6.5+ million views on it.

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They lamented to me many of the laments I was currently lamenting. "This was just a stupid throwaway thing", "why is this so much more popular than the stuff I put effort into", "it's just me making PaRappa the Rapper say the word 'Chinese' over and over". Ok maybe that last one was a bit more specific to them. Anyway, I responded with (and I admit a lot of the reason I felt this way was because I thought and still think the video is funny) something along the lines of "you can't pick what hits for people, it might have been throwaway but at the end of the day you posted it because you thought it was at least a little bit funny, try and focus on the fact that you have a popular video at all rather than the fact it's not one of the videos you're particularly proud of".

But yeah damn turns out that advice is easier said than done when it happens to you, and it's even harder done when it happens to a factually not entertaining video. One you could have uploaded as unlisted and achieved your intended result with. The runaway success of this thing genuinely broke me on this whole "Internet" deal.

I should stress I mean this in a good way. I realized that it's not so much that you can't pick what hits for people, it's that you physically cannot pick what gets put in front of people. The people cannot pick what hits for them. A computer does. You can try and promote and affect what gets seen in your own small sphere of influence, but ultimately we are, on YouTube and on all of our social platforms, at the mercy of a black box of computer programs that I'm not even sure the people who created them understand anymore. I'd obviously known this on some level prior to this video existing, but bearing witness to it all happening firsthand to this video in particular was another thing entirely. Anything prior that I had achieved marginally similar success with (there were a couple that had broken 100k) was meant to be entertaining. It was meant for people to watch and go "I liked that", not for one guy on a forum to see and go "good work solving my maze Superman". I could classify the success as "neat, people liked that one" in my brain. This defied classification.

The only logical conclusion was that it truly didn't matter what I uploaded. It's all decided by a random machine picking things at random to serve random amounts of people, and the people click on it and watch it simply because it is there. You can poke at the machine, prod at the machine, try to guess what the machine likes, try to iterate on something the machine has previously demonstrated that it likes. It's all an effort to get the machine to put it in front of the people who will click it because it is there. That's what all the bigger capital-C Content Creators do. From the high level stuff of "what kind of things do I upload" to the low level minutia of "how many curse words can I say in the first minute", making it Big On Line in any capacity is about trying to appease an unknowable mechanical entity and nothing else. It's either that or you're "old money" in a sense, established before this all became the case.

And again, the bigger names do this. Entire companies do this. If I were "smart" I would have pivoted my entire YouTube channel to nothing but hour and a half long commentary-free bullshit hard ROM hack playthroughs. Maybe another one would hit like this did. But for the life of me I could not and cannot think of anything more soul crushing.

I wouldn't say I had aspirations to be a Big Time YouTube Man, but at that time I would have maybe liked to be a Moderate Size YouTube Man. Or a moderate size Twitch man. Someone who had people watching but was still able to have fun with it and do his own thing. This newfound realization that it was truly a random lottery, even beyond the random lottery that most of human life is, that becoming any size bigger than Small Time was literally decided by an actual factual random number generator, freed me from the desire to do anything that I didn't want to do. If actively chasing success on these modern, algorithmically-driven platforms, actively going after "Kaizo Sonic 2 Full Run" numbers, meant putting aside the things I like and reinventing myself and the things I do down to the minute details in order to appease a literal ghost beyond anyone's understanding or control that changes what it's looking for on a whim, then I did not want to do that. I did not want to keep a timer for when I could talk normal, I did not want to announce my streams on Twitter with the link in a separate reply one day, in an embedded image the next, and in my display name the next. If there is absolutely one thing I do not want to do in my life, it's dance for a robot.

But the most freeing thing about realizing this is that it also meant if I just kept doing stuff I liked, maybe, someday, I could get lucky enough to where the unknowable internet robot would push that in front of a million or so people. In the grand scheme of things it's about an equal chance of that happening on something I like and am proud of versus something I made in a desperate cloying attempt to placate an algorithm.

Anyway damn this got long and rambly sorry about that lol. This was initially meant to just be a little toast to the 5 year-ish anniversary of me fully becoming an Internet nihilist. Remember folks, it's meaningless to chase success in an algorithm dominated landscape. In the words of a certain extremely Normal-type man, "real life isn't all just being true to yourself", but I reject the notion that the Internet is not or should not be, in spite of the legion of ghouls and freaks at the top of the chain actively trying to make that the case every day.

Be true to yourself. Do what you love, make what you love, post what you love, and maybe if you're lucky a computer somewhere will decide it's your turn, because that's the single deciding factor in all of this. In the mean time, you'll end up slowly and naturally surrounding yourself with cool people who get you, if only a little bit. At least that's what's happened for me so far. I've been pretty alright with it.

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bdsmsub67 · 10 months ago

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leftmusing · 2 years ago

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we really need to start looking at more comprehensive ways to ensure thorough internet safety.

these days, i find myself desensitised and used to seeing things that are downright worrying, scary, and developmentally stunted because of how normal it's become for social media companies to value profit and revenue over the safety of minors online. more and more, i see younger and younger teenagers posting drastically inappropriate content to public forums — lists of vulnerabilities, real names, sexual jokes, a comprehensive breakdown of identities. it's somehow become normal for people to link a carrd or pin a post listing diagnoses/self diagnoses, trauma, endless terms of identification, dni lists longer than the constitution, etc. it's accepted behaviour, even encouraged by most adults online, and to be frank, it's perturbing how much of a lack of internet safety awareness and digital footprint is taught to under 18s now.

this has been a pretty drastic change sociopolitically in internet spaces, quickly developing in less than 10 years. and it's not the kids' fault — not by any means. they're taught that listing intimate and personal details about themselves on unprotected public domain is somehow a rite of passage within queer spaces, that they need to prove something about their sickness, that they need to have sickness if they don't already to be treated with attention and respect (which is something all children want and all children deserve. just not this sort of attention).

as queer adults, we're doing nothing. we're taking no responsibility to protect the trans kids we claim to with pastel gifs and trending hashtags. there's no differentiation between adult spaces and young people's spaces, no clear divide between content that's appropriate and content that isn't. it's accepted and encouraged that children use websites with minimal safety settings and guidelines that have no foolproof age verification process, and nobody seems to blink an eye.

i remember being 14/15 on social media very clearly. it's still recent history. but comparing the privacy walls, age verification blocks and legitimate pop ups requiring proof of ID before continuing onto inappropriate content to what there is (or rather, what there isn't) nowadays, is frankly scary.

one of the most troubling things for me is how these conversations are often reduced to discourse between adults and children which is wildly and unwholesomely counterproductive. have we all forgotten concepts of power imbalance that we practise with the children in our real day to day lives? because when i see topics like this online, it's never anything more than people beefing about "minors DNI" or "18+ DNI" or "you're a groomer for following me without realising i'm 16" or "where are your mommy and daddy".

frankly, we should all be ashamed of ourselves. we should be ashamed of ourselves for generationally starting the trend of hypervigilantly self pathologising, spreading genuine misinformation in pursuit of appearing morally puritanical, encouraging the conclusions that 13 year olds are drawing about having personality disorders, and exacerbating inattentive personality traits and proceeding to tell children who are victims to the algorithmic machine that they must have ADHD.

we need to do better. we need to show up for questioning and queer teens online. we need to open a dialogue about online spaces and age specific forums/websites that honour the humanity and boundaries of adult and minor on equal levelling.

because we're making the younger half of our generation sick with our own sickness. the difference is, we're old enough to know and do better — they're not.

#monad.txt #i dont know how well this sums up my thoughts so i'll likely make additions when im more well rested #queer culture #queer politics #leftism #social media #sociology #boundaries #online discourse #etc etc idk

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poppyandzena · 9 months ago

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That AI claim is super easy to fact check too. There are dozens of free tools that you can use to detect AI generated papers. Why in the world wouldn’t Saige/Poppy run the emails through Turnitin before blindly believing an anon? The sock puppet email address is super easy to fact check too. There are only a few email services that don’t require 2fa verification. It would be easy to just google the domain the names to see if they’re from one of them.

And anyone with two eyes would understand why [email protected] wouldn't have a legitimate complaint to offer to Poppy's clinic compared to her ex, the guest she sexually harassed, and possible clients and other victims.

#poppy

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leads-view · 9 months ago

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Best Email Verification Tools: Comparing Features and User Reviews

In the realm of business communication, email reigns supreme. It's an essential vehicle to connect with customers, prospects, and business partners alike. With its critical role, maintaining an accurate email database becomes paramount. Unfortunately, invalid email addresses can find their way into your mailing list, force you to combat low delivery rates, high bounce rates, and possibly, poor sender reputation. Email verification tools can come to the rescue. By ensuring the accuracy of emails on your list, these tools enhance your email marketing efforts and protect your sender's reputation. This blog post will review four highly-rated email validation tools, comparing key features and user reviews. 1. ZeroBounce One of the leading email validation services, ZeroBounce, offers a robust platform for cleaning up your email lists. Key Features: Full email verification: Has a comprehensive process to check syntax, domain, and mail server. Spam Trap Detection: Identifies email addresses from known spam operation networks. Toxic Domain Detection: Helps cleanse the list of domains recognized for abuse, spam, and bot creation.

User Reviews: Many users lauded the intuitive user interface and exceptional customer service. Users also found value in the detailed reports provided. However, some users cited limitations in integration options as a downside. 2. Snov.io Snov.io, an easy-to-use tool, gives businesses an all-in-one platform for verifying email validity. Key Features: Email Verification: Checks each email address to ensure it’s legitimate and won't bounce. Email Sender: An in-built tool to run and monitor email campaigns. Chrome Extension: Offers easy email harvesting from websites and LinkedIn. User Reviews: User reviews praise Snov.io for its feature-rich nature as much as its affordability. The Chrome extension in particular gets a shout-out for efficiency. However, some users expressed the need for more sophisticated analytics tools.

3. NeverBounce NeverBounce prioritizes simplicity and efficiency in its email verification processes, supporting both bulk email verification and single email verification. Key Features: Real-time Email Verification: NeverBounce boasts fast verification times, notifying you the moment your list has been cleaned. Integrations: Works seamlessly with popular platforms like MailChimp, HubSpot, and more. User Reviews: The simplicity and speed of NeverBounce's service have earned it many positive reviews. Users also appreciate the extent of its integrations. However, pricing could be a sticking point for some. 4. Hunter Formerly known as Email Hunter, Hunter offers a reliable verification process and an impressive discovery feature. Key Features: Email Verification: Ensure emails are syntactically correct and exist with the mail service provider. Email Discovery: Helps you find the best-known email of a person from their first name, last name, and domain name. User Reviews: Many users express satisfaction with Hunter's email discovery feature, as well as its speed and reliability in verifying emails. The tool, on the downside, has been described as pricier than its competitors, presenting a potential barrier for some businesses. Conclusion The choice of an email verification tool will depend on your business's specific needs and budget. Each one has its strengths and potential drawbacks. A review of their key features, embedded within your business context, alongside consideration of user reviews, can guide you in making a suitable choice. Ultimately, the essential part is to clean and maintain an updated and accurate email list, setting a solid foundation for successful email marketing initiatives.

#ContentCreation #BrandAwareness #EngageYourAudience #SocialStrategy #SEO #emailmarketing #email verification

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mdabutaleb · 11 months ago

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borismann · 2 years ago

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Bluesky #ATProtocol uses domain names as user handles. Parker Higgins did a great write up that mostly focuses on the possibilities of what using domains can enable.

“Verification by HTML reflects a web-first mindset, verification by DNS reflects a net-first mindset.”

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robpegoraro · 1 year ago

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No checkmark, no domain name, no problem: other ways to verify your Bluesky self

Please, please, please: Don't leave potential followers on Bluesky guessing about whether that's really you.

As the ongoing flight from Twitter has continued, it’s been heartening to see so many familiar names show up on Bluesky, the Twitter alternative that comes closest to replicating what I liked about Twitter when it wasn’t run by a shitposting billionaire with a toxic social-media diet and a victimhood complex. At least, I think those are familiar names. But because Bluesky’s only equivalent of…

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#Bluesky #Bluesky domain name handle #Bluesky identity #Bluesky user #bsky #social media verification #Twitter verification

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nothorses · 4 months ago

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I ran into a FB marketplace scam the other day: the account was from 2009, so even though I couldn't see any of his info, I assumed it was probably a real person.

He contacted me about a table I had listed for sale, asked how long I'd had it, then told me he was out of town for business but his brother would pick it up later that day, and what was my address? I said I'd send it when I knew when he was on his way, and gave him my approx location instead. That didn't bother him; all seemed well.

Then he said he would pay me online (still makes sense: most FB marketplace sales are cash lately, but if someone else is picking it up for him, this tracks) and asked for my Zell or Paypal (options: also feels legit). I gave him my phone number for Zelle. He said Zelle wanted my email to confirm, since this was his first time sending money to me.

This is weird. To my knowledge, Zelle won't ask for confirmation of someone's identity via email: you can have your phone number and email registered to two separate accounts. I thought this was kinda weird, but not enough that it fazed me, and I went with it.

I got an email "from Zelle" saying he'd tried to send me the amount I requested for the table, but my account limit was too low because it wasn't a business account. I need to get the guy to send me another $400 "to verify".

Weird. Guy says he got a similar error message, and he's had this problem before because his Zelle is a business account. If I call the support number in the email, they can resolve it.

I call. They say yeah, no problem, we just need him to send you $400 so we can verify and raise the limit on your account for this transaction. We know that sounds kinda sketchy to some people, so we're going to call him and explain it to him as well.

While this is happening I'm googling the "Zelle support" phone number from the email, and can't get anything (because all of the phone number verification services at the top of the search results are all paywalled scams themselves). "Zelle support" says they have him on the phone, and the guy DMs me to say he's sending the $400. I get another email "from Zelle".

Finally I google the "Zelle support" email, which is, very suspiciously, an @gmail.com address. This is super weird; why wouldn't Zelle have their own domain name? Finally I get a bunch of results saying yes, this is a scam, and outlining basically this exact scenario and how it works. I hang up, tell the guy that I know it's a scam (and if it isn't, somehow, he can call Zelle support himself- and/or his bank- and get the money sent back), report him to FB, and block him before he can send me anything else.

I share all of this because I'm usually pretty privvy to scams, but this one got super far with me before I finally clocked it. There's a lot of shit people can do to get around common knowledge about how to identify scams, but imo, the best and most reliable way to identify a scam is the one I should have done way before calling that number: googling phone numbers and email addresses.

It doesn't take a lot of time, it's easy to remember to do it for just about any new contact you make with a number or address, and there aren't a lot of ways to fuck it up. We can't learn every single scam that exists, but contact info for real, actual businesses and organizations is a lot harder to fake.

#this also might have saved my mom's ass when she got scammed by a moving company dupe like 6 years ago #they faked a real moving company's whole entire website #even moved her stuff!!!#and then stole a bunch of her shit and shipped half of the rest across the country #when she tried to contact them she ended up calling the REAL company who had no idea what the hell was going on

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beatverse1 · 2 days ago

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Mastering the Digital Era as a Musician

In today’s digital landscape, musicians must adopt innovative strategies to succeed. Beyond creating amazing music, it’s about effectively using online tools and platforms to amplify your reach. Whether you’re a budding artist or an established one, understanding how to navigate this digital age is crucial for achieving your goals. From pitching your music to creating a brand identity and leveraging the power of social platforms, every step matters.

This guide explores five essential aspects of building a strong presence as a musician while embracing modern platforms and technologies.

Pitching a Song: The Gateway to Recognition

Every great journey starts with an introduction, and in the music industry, that introduction often comes through pitching. Knowing how to pitch a song effectively is a critical skill for any musician. When you pitch, you’re not just presenting a track—you’re offering a story, an experience, and a connection.

Start by identifying your audience. Are you pitching to a music producer, a radio station, or a streaming service? Tailor your pitch to highlight what makes your music unique. Include details about the song’s inspiration, its potential audience, and how it fits into the larger music scene. A successful pitch often includes a short, professional email with a link to your track, a concise description, and your contact information. Don’t forget to follow up politely but persistently!

Choosing the Right Artist Name: Your Brand in a Nutshell

Your artist name is more than just a moniker—it’s your brand identity. Brainstorming creative artist name ideas can help you carve out a distinct niche in the crowded music industry.

The right name should resonate with your genre and personality while being easy to remember and search online. Avoid complicated spellings or names that are too generic. For example, if your music has a whimsical tone, your name could reflect that through quirky or imaginative words. Always check for the availability of your chosen name across social media platforms and domain names to ensure consistency.

Instagram Verification: Why It Matters for Musicians

Social media is an invaluable tool for artists, and Instagram remains one of the most popular platforms for connecting with fans. But what does getting verified on Instagram mean? It’s more than just a blue badge; it’s a stamp of authenticity.

Being verified means that Instagram has confirmed your account as the genuine presence of a notable person, brand, or entity. For musicians, this adds credibility, makes your account stand out, and can even increase engagement. To get verified, focus on building a strong profile with consistent branding, engaging content, and active fan interactions. Submit an application through Instagram’s settings and provide proof of authenticity.

Sharing Your Music on Spotify: A Gateway to Millions

Platforms like Spotify have revolutionized how musicians share their work. Many artists ask, “can I upload songs to Spotify app?” Absolutely, and it’s easier than you might think.

To upload your music, you’ll need to work with a distributor like TuneCore or DistroKid. These services help you publish your tracks on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Ensure your tracks are well-mixed and mastered to professional standards before uploading. Remember, Spotify also provides tools like Spotify for Artists, which allows you to track your performance, engage with fans, and refine your strategy.

YouTube Verification: A Milestone for Your Career

YouTube is another powerful platform for musicians, offering exposure to millions of potential listeners. Achieving verified on YouTube status can help you stand out and unlock additional features like a verified badge, access to custom thumbnails, and live streaming.

To get verified, your channel must have at least 100,000 subscribers. Additionally, you must adhere to YouTube’s community guidelines and provide accurate channel information. With perseverance, quality content, and regular engagement with your audience, reaching verification is achievable.

Conclusion

Success in the music industry requires more than just talent; it demands a strategic approach to branding, marketing, and platform utilization. Whether you’re learning to pitch your music, choosing an unforgettable artist name, or navigating verification processes on platforms like Instagram, Spotify, and YouTube, each step contributes to your growth.

Start building your online presence today and watch your music career flourish. The digital stage is set—are you ready to take it?

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